Recent CIAC news

29/09/14, from Liz Shea: The results from the 2012 giant
Pacific octopus workshop have been moved to http://drumandcroaker.org/drumcroaker.htm
(see pages 95 - 115 of the January 2014 issue, available as a pdf).

The Organizing Committe of the "6th International Symposium on Pacific
Squids" and "5th International Workshop on Squids" that
will held in Lima - Peru, from 10 to 14 November 2014, are very pleased
to invite you to participate in these scientific meetings. You can find
details of these events in the following link:

Dr. Roland C. Anderson of Seattle, aged 67, died in his
sleep mid-February at the Whidbey Island vacation home he loved. The son
of a sea captain, Dr. Anderson grew up on the Kitsap Peninsula, where
he became an avid naturalist and scuba diver.

Dr. Anderson received his undergraduate degree in biology
from University of Washington; it was a natural transition to the Seattle
Aquarium, and his PhD in Marine Biology from Greenwich University. Long
fascinated by malacology (the study of mollusks), he served as president
for the Western Society of Malacologists, president of the American Malacological
Society, a guest-editor for the journal, "Diseases of Aquatic Organisms,"
and was an avid member of the Pacific Northwest Shell Club. Dr. Anderson
was author or co-author of more than 200 articles in scientific journals,
and co-author of the book, "Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate."

As an internationally recognized authority on cephalopods,
Dr. Anderson was interviewed on two occasions by the New York Times; was
a featured scientist on the nature special, "Tentacles;" and
was quoted in many other major news sources. He pioneered the idea of
enrichment for captive octopuses and their release as adults, and began
Octopus Week at the Seattle Aquarium, including the wildly popular February
14th event, the "Octopus Blind Date."

Dr. Anderson retired from the Seattle Aquarium in 2009,
after 31 years of service. Throughout his career, he was always open to
new ideas and new ways of conducting and presenting research - he was
a mentor to numerous graduate students.

In addition to his expansive knowledge of cephalopods
and marine life, Dr. Anderson had an acerbic wit and was a colorful practical
joker. People enjoyed his kindness, enthusiasm and sense of humor. A long-time
friend and colleague remembered Dr. Anderson as, "a researcher, author,
diver, connoisseur of desserts, curmudgeon ......... and friend."

A memorial for Dr. Roland C. Anderson will be held at
the Seattle Aquarium Classroom on April 9th at 6:00pm. His ashes will
be scattered at the point where he used to release captured octopuses
back to the sea. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his honor
to the Seattle Aquarium. From The Seattle Times.

23/01/14 from Roland Anderson:

Hi All, Please note that the proceedings of the 2012 giant
Pacific octopus workshop are now easily available in the journal Drum
and Croaker (page 95): http://www.columbuszoo.org/drumcroaker/pdf/2014.pdf
[since moved to http://drumandcroaker.org/drumcroaker.htm]
The next workshop on GPOs is set for Match 29, 2014. I think we again
have a very interesting line-up of speakers for this event. Registration
can be found on the webpage of the Seattle Aquarium.
Best wishes to all,
Roland

17/01/14 from Carmen Yamashiro Guinoza <cyamashiro@IMARPE.GOB.PE>

Dear Louise and all CIAC members:

Thank you very to all of you for your support, we are very pleased to
announce the "6° International Symposium on Pacific Squids"
and "5° International Workshop on Pacific Squids" that will
held in Lima-Perú, from 10 to 14 November 2014. You can get the
first announcement on the following link:

What is CIAC?

CIAC is the Cephalopod International Advisory Council
(not to be confused with the Conference on Algorithms and Complexity,
Computer Incident Advisory Capability, or any of the other CIACs out there!)

Founded in 1983, the aims of CIAC are to stimulate, accelerate
and influence the direction of cephalopod research, to provide help and
advice on aspects of cephalopod biology, including those relevant to the
management of the increasingly important cephalopod fisheries, and to
spread information on past and current research. Its
main activities are:

The holding of CIAC Workshop/Symposia every
3 years and the publication of the results in book or journal form.

The organisation of CIAC Joint Meetings with
fisheries organisations, societies, or laboratories for exchange of
information and usually the publication of papers and/or training manuals.

The endorsement of meetings organised by any cephalopod
workers who provide evidence to CIAC of the value and feasibility of
a meeting being planned.

The production of a newsletter, replaced more recently
by an e-mail discussion list (fastmoll).

Support for various cephalopod-related initiatives.
In the past these included the publication and updating of a Directory
of English translations of Research Publications in Other Languages,
a List of Cephalopod Workers of the World, a Computerised
Bibliography of Cephalopod Research, Keys for the Identification
of Cephalopods, and State of the Art papers in selected areas
of research. Current initiatives include the cephalopod pages of the
Encyclopedia of Life.

At present CIAC comprises a "Council", members
of which are proposed by delegates at the CIAC conferences and voted on
by the existing Council. Council members serve for 6 years (see CIAC by-laws
for further details). The Council meets at every designated CIAC Workshop/Symposium.
These Council Meetings may be divided into several continuous sittings
or sessions. The objectives of these meetings are to plan and implement
the aims of the Council as described above.

At all CIAC Workshops/Symposia there will be an Open
Meeting, presided over by the President or Executive Secretary of
CIAC, to which anyone interested in CIAC and its aims may come and speak
on subjects of relevance to CIAC, at which participants will be asked
for nominations for membership of Council, and at which proposals for
CIAC Workshops/Symposia may be made.

The photograph below shows the members of the first CIAC
Executive Council (plus the editor of the CIAC Newsletter, Marion Nixon)
in 1985. Standing, left to right: Ron O'Dor, Nancy Voss, Gilbert Voss,
John Messenger, Marion Nixon, Eric Hochberg, Richard Young and Malcolm
Clarke. Crouching, left to right: Sigurd v. Boletzky, Clyde Roper, Katy
Mangold, Angel Guerra, C.C. Lu and John Wormuth. The photo was taken adjacent
to the Laboratorire Arago (Banyuls-sur-Mer, France) in June 1985, during
the International Symposium on the Early Growth Stages of Cephalopods
(CIAC 1985). (Photo supplied by Angel Guerra)

The "Council"

The current council members and officers (following
elections in October 2012), plus honorary members, etc, are as follows: